Journalists less trusted than lawyers, taxi drivers and baggage handlers
Journalists have once again struggled to convince the public to trust them in Readers Digest’s annual survey of most trusted professions coming in at number 42 on the list, beaten by lawyers, taxi drivers and airport baggage handlers.However, journalists did fare slightly better than radio talkback hosts who came in at number 43, with CEOs providing the buffer between the two professions. Journos and talkback hosts are more trustworthy than real estate agents, call centre staff, sex workers, insurance salespeople, politicians and door-to-door salespeople who made up last six places on the Readers Digest list.
When compared to last year’s efforts, journalists and talkback radio hosts have improved with both moving up a place on the ladder from their 43rd and 44th positions on the 2013 list.
Paramedics were seen as the must trustworthy.
The list is quite similar with Roy Morgan’s Image of Professions Survey for 2014 which was released in April this year which ranked 30 professions on how they are perceived by the public. TV reporters came in at 19, followed by newspaper journalists at 20. Talk-back radio announcers came in at 24 with advertising people at 29th only beating car salesmen.
Readers Digest also compiles a list of the most trusted people in 2014, with the usual health experts rounding out the top three.
Can we trust the writer of this article that this information is accurate?
So just how much should we trust a trust survey from one of the shonkiest companies going around?
Personally, I’m inclined to discard anything that comes bearing the Reader’s Digest brand.
They are after all the company that bombards me with constant (but unsubscribe-able) sweepstake emails and DM spam, not to mention the sender of a barrage of threatening letters of demand for renewal of a gifted magazine subscription!
Tracey Grimshaw!?!
Shouldn’t hosting that repulsive stain on Australian television A CURRENT AFFAIR disqualify you from being referred to as a Journalist?
Next thing you’ll tell me Andrew Bolt is a journalist, instead of just another Murdoch/Abbot mouthpiece.
You mean, can we trust the Readers Digest PR team who gathered the info to blatently publicise its magazine to increase sales?
Car salesman?
Sex Workers – not trusted to do WHAT ?????????????
Hmm – Rolf Harris, Kevin Rudd, Kyle Sandilands, Tim Flannery . . . methinks the data is somewhat tainted.
Could this result come from the fact that most journalists now work for the corporate presstitute media? Ruperts men, for example. Personally, I wouldn’t trust Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest or Gina Rinehart as far as I could spit on them!
I’m with you Ross Tester. If Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and Gina Rinehart made the Top 100 then it’s dodgy